I Do Really Well In The Traditional

My Parents Were Very Firm About Me Always Getting My Homework Done.

Celebrate Those Who Have The Courage To Be Second, Because I Do Think That Often There Really Is This Claustrophobic Pressure To Innovate Instead Of To Adapt.

At The Fourth Grade Level, Girls At The Same Percentages Of Boys Say They're Interested In Careers In Engineering Or Math Or Astrophysics, But By Eighth Grade That Has Dropped Precipitously.

My Parents Have Been Incredibly Supportive From Perhaps The First Real Independent Decision I Made To Become A Vegetarian At 11, Which Was Certainly Not Consistent With Their Diet At The Time.

That's Not What I Want My Children To Hear. That's Not Representative Of The Country That I Want My Children To Grow Up In. And So That Actually I Found Far More Upsetting As A Mom, As A Woman, As An American, And Even As My Mother's Daughter Than Anything They Said About My Mom.